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The Pyramid Murders

The Pyramid Murders
  • Author(s): Fiona Veitch Smith
  • Location(s): Egypt, London, Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

1930: Miss Clara Vale, chemistry major turned detective, is taking a night off from sleuthing to attend the launch party of a new exhibition at the Hancock Museum in Newcastle. But when the piece de resistance, a rare ornate...

The Serpent House

The Serpent House
  • Author(s): Bea Davenport
  • Location(s): Berwick upon Tweed
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Victorian and medieval

Set in 1899, the story is about Annie and her older brother, who go to work in the eerie Hexer Hall. Soon we find that Annie can travel in time – and she ends up in the frightening medieval...

The Serpent Sword

The Serpent Sword
  • Author(s): Matthew Harffy
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 633 AD

AD 633 Beobrand is a young man with a shadowy past. As an outsider in the kingdom of Bernicia, he is compelled to join his brother, Octa, as a warrior in the household of King Edwin. He must learn...

The Silent Killer

The Silent Killer
  • Author(s): Trevor Wood
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The first in a Newcastle-set police procedural series with a twist. DCI Jack Parker has a secret. He has Early Onset Dementia and he will do anything and everything to hide it from his peers and the people he’s...

THE TEA PLANTER’S DAUGHTER

THE TEA PLANTER’S DAUGHTER
  • Author(s): Janet MacLeod Trotter
  • Location(s): Assam, Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

Lush, green, fragrant: the Indian hills of Assam are full of promise. But eighteen-year-old Clarissa Belhaven is full of worry. The family tea plantation is suffering, and so is her father, still grieving over the untimely death of his...

The Tuppenny Child

The Tuppenny Child
  • Author(s): Glenda Young
  • Location(s): Ryhope, Sunderland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1919

‘She’s not worth more than tuppence, that child!’ Those are the words that haunt Sadie Linthorpe. She is the talk of Ryhope when she arrives there, aged seventeen, alone, seeking work and a home in the pit village. But...

The Village on the Hill

The Village on the Hill
  • Author(s): Annie Doyle
  • Location(s): Gateshead, Bournemouth, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

Three women caught up in three global disasters. Will tragedy reunite them or tear them apart for ever? Bournemouth 1912 – Ena Leighton prepares for a new life with her aunt and uncle in a beautiful house with a...

The Vixen’s Scream

The Vixen’s Scream
  • Author(s): John Dean
  • Location(s): North Pennines
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Are harrowing screams heard in the night, the cries of a fox, or worse? When a woman from London reports the screams of a girl during the night, knowing better, the local police in the Pennines think nothing of...

The Wall

The Wall
  • Author(s): Douglas Jackson
  • Location(s): Cumbria, The North East (England)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): AD 400

AD 400. Rome and its Empire are failing . . . Veteran cavalry commander Marcus Flavius Victor sets out with his regiment to make what may be his final tour of the forts along Hadrian’s Wall. Through a combination...

The Wharf Butcher

The Wharf Butcher
  • Author(s): Michael K Foster
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A serial killer is stalking Tyneside. But there is a pattern to his killings, his choice of victims, his method of slaughter. David Carlisle, a criminal profiler, is brought in to assist DCI Jack Mason with his task of...

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